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Working Group Reports

The following is the list of working groups that have submitted Reports

Biogeochemical complexity across LTER sites: the what, where and how
Organizer:	Tiffany Troxler-Gann FCE
Sessions:	Working Group Session 6 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 7 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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Biogeochemical cross-site intercomparison using the DayCent-Chem model
Organizer:	Jill Baron NWT
Sessions:	Working Group Session 6 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 7 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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Changing Ecosystem Services: Responses to climate and disturbance and implications for policy change
Organizer:	F. Chapin BNZ
Sessions:	Working Group Session 6 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 7 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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Chlorophyll fluorescence monitoring at selected LTER Network sites
Organizer:	Richard Boyce NWT
Sessions:	Working Group Session 5 - Thu., Sep 21, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM)
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Coastal LTER sites in observing systems
Organizer:	Robert Christian VCR
Sessions:	Working Group Session 9 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 10 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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Cross-Site Synthesis of ANPP Grasslands Research - Challenges in Data Integration
Organizer:	Judy Cushing
Sessions:	Working Group Session 9 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 10 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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Disproportionality, Scale and Human Behaviors in Ecosystems
Organizer:	Pete Nowak NTL
Sessions:	Working Group Session 5 - Thu., Sep 21, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM)
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Ecosystem Informatics Education and Research
Organizer:	Julia Jones AND
Sessions:	Working Group Session 6 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 7 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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Ecosystem Modifications of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Across LTER Sites
Organizer:	Alvin Smucker KBS
Sessions:	Working Group Session 11 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) Working Group Session 12 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)
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Ecosystem Response to changes in climate in cold regimes
Organizer:	William Lyons MCM
Sessions:	Working Group Session 5 - Thu., Sep 21, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM)
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Environmental Justice across the LTER Network: long-term and multi-scale understandings of past, present, and future.
Organizer:	Christopher Boone BES
Sessions:	Working Group Session 6 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 7 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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Exploring the Effect of Scale-dependent Processes on Ecological Systems using Networked Sensors
Organizer:	John Porter VCR
Sessions:	Working Group Session 6 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 7 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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High performance geographical information systems for synthesis across ecological research sites
Organizer:	Theresa Valentine AND
Sessions:	Working Group Session 5 - Thu., Sep 21, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM)
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ILTER: the challenges, contributions, principles of integration, and added value of international collaboration in conducting global multi-scale integrated environmental management and research
Organizer:	Patrick Bourgeron NWT
Sessions:	Working Group Session 9 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 10 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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Linking science with humanities and arts at LTER sites
Organizer:	Frederick Swanson AND
Sessions:	Working Group Session 11 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) Working Group Session 12 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)
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LINX II Workshop
Organizer:	Patrick Mulholland NWK
Sessions:	Ancillary: Working Group Session 3 - Wed., Sep 20, 2006 (8:00 AM - 12:00 PM) Ancillary: Working Group Session 4 - Wed., Sep 20, 2006 (1:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
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LTER Education Committee Meeting: Re-Inventing the Schoolyard LTER Web Pages
Organizer:	Monica Elser CAP
Sessions:	Ancillary: Working Group Session 4 - Wed., Sep 20, 2006 (1:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
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LTER Education Committee: Professional Development and Curriculum Development in LTER Education
Organizer:	Monica Elser CAP
Sessions:	Ancillary: Working Group Session 3 - Wed., Sep 20, 2006 (8:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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LTER Information Managers Meeting: Design of Query Interface to LTER Data Catalog: Controlled Vocabularies Working Group (2:30 - 5 pm)
Organizer:	Nicole Kaplan SGS
Sessions:	Ancillary: Working Group Session 4 - Wed., Sep 20, 2006 (1:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
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LTER Information Managers Meeting: Information management issues and the LTER Trends project: A drawing board for making cross-site comparisons feasible
Organizer:	Christine Laney JRN
Sessions:	Ancillary: Working Group Session 3 - Wed., Sep 20, 2006 (8:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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Metabolic Theory of Ecology and Stream Ecosystems
Organizer:	Jennifer Shah SEV
Sessions:	Working Group Session 6 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 7 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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Phenology: data, research, synthesis
Organizer:	Geoffrey Henebry KNZ
Sessions:	Working Group Session 5 - Thu., Sep 21, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM)
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Plant community responses to nitrogen enrichment: Results from a cross-site synthesis
Organizer:	Elsa Cleland NWK
Sessions:	Working Group Session 12 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM) Working Group Session 11 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM)
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Shrub Expansion and Dynamics Across the LTER Network: A Cross-Site Synthesis of Patterns, Mechanisms and Consequences
Organizer:	John Briggs CAP
Sessions:	Working Group Session 9 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 10 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM) Working Group Session 11 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) Working Group Session 12 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)
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Status of Emerging Environmental Observatories and Opportunities for LTER Collaboration
Organizer:	William Michener LNO
Sessions:	Working Group Session 11 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) Working Group Session 12 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)
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Synthetic Retrospective and Paleo Ecology: Network-level investigations of broad-scale and long-term phenomena
Organizer:	James Rusak NTL
Sessions:	Working Group Session 6 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 7 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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The effect of nitrogen-fixing plants on diversity and species interactions
Organizer:	Jennifer Shah SEV
Sessions:	Working Group Session 5 - Thu., Sep 21, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM)
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The Sensitivity of Ecosystems to Climate Change: Bringing LTER Observations and Experiments to Bear on Predictive Capabilities
Organizer:	A. McGuire BNZ
Sessions:	Working Group Session 6 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 7 - Fri., Sep 22, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
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Toward a synthesis of LTER studies of small mammal populations and communities in arid and semiarid ecosystems
Organizer:	Paul Stapp SGS
Sessions:	Working Group Session 9 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (9:30 AM - 10:30 AM) Working Group Session 10 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM) Working Group Session 11 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (2:00 PM - 3:30 PM) Working Group Session 12 - Sat., Sep 23, 2006 (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)
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